Quotes About Cinematography

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

It is not always important that you have dialogues. How you present your role depends on the director and the cameraman; the actor also has few things to do.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I just don't like filming scenes where it's like, that's not how people talk. People aren't saying a joke every five seconds.

Scorsese has very defined ideas about how to shoot a scene, and he's an editor himself - we cut together. It means he's constantly thinking about my problems while he's filming.

I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

Filming in London is brilliant.

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

I think it's really hard for filmmakers to adapt books.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and his vision.

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

One of the first things I want do when I start writing music for a film is to create its own sound world, its own music world.

The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn't stand out.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.